[Dailydrool] Food Aggressiveness

[Tom Hickcox]

At 15:07 9/11/2010, Jane Hay wrote:

>We have not had any more fights since the other day. Even though our Ginger
>is so much smaller than Brutus, her aggressiveness will take her a long
>way. It scared the heck out of me when she went after him! She's so much
>shorter than he is that she was right under his neck and you know what she
>went after. One of the first things we noticed about Ginger when she came to
>us as a foster dog was all the scaring she has on her snout. Well, now we
>know why. Of course, we'll never know what her situation was before us but,
>since she is so terribly food aggressive, we've always wondered if she was
>in a pack and had to fight for her food.

We adopted Mabel two years ago.  She was probably 8yo and we were 
told at one time she was a stray.

She is very aggressive about food and we have wondered if living as a 
stray was a large factor in that.  At first she would bully Myrtle 
off Myrtle's food, but we have since trained her to the point we can 
throw a treat and say "Myrtle's; Myrtle's . . ." and she won't take it.

BTW, tomorrow is Myrtle's Gotcha Day.  8y ago she was an eleven pound 
waif in a pet shop.

Tommy in Baton Rouge